Joshua Cranmer has patches that fix most of the news uri handling in TB. This makes it possible to use news:// or nntp:// urls. To make sure we aren't regressing he's built a try build and need people using Thunderbird as a news reader to test these kinds of urls.

new Get Satisfaction (GS) contributors: rob_1864031 and claire_1703356 (Thanks! and Welcome!) - always looking for new GS and SuMoMo contributors, roland AT mozillamessaging.com OR #gsfn irc.mozilla.org nick:rolandtanglao